The Henry Kunkel Society’s 17th Annual Meeting was held at the Rockefeller University in New York on April 22-25, 2009.

The conference title “Innate Immunity, Host Defense and Autoimmunity” kicked off with Dr. Thomas Tuschl from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology at Rockefeller University as the Henry G. Kunkel Lecturer.

FINAL PROGRAM Confirmed Speakers:     David Artis   Jean-Laurent Casanova   Edward K.L. Chan   Edward Clark   Andrea Cooper   Mike Gale   Michael Glickman    Siamon Gordon   David Lee   Dan Littman   Laurence Morel   Yong-jun Liu   Gerald Nepom   Carl Nathan   Jeffrey Ravetch   Eric Pamer   Antony Rosen   Westley Reeves   Akshay Vaishnaw

Program Committee:   Keith Elkon, Chair   Edward Clark   Eric Pamer   Antony Rosen